Upgrade process for fontawesome from 4 to 5

upgrade font-awesome font-awesome-5
Daniel picture Daniel · Dec 7, 2016 · Viewed 13.3k times · Source

We contributed to font-awesome 5 (yea), and we are looking from moving from our existing icons (Symbol set) to font-awesome. Will the naming of icons and usage of font-awesome 5 be backwards compatible with font-awesome 4.7?

IE: Should we go to 4.7 now, and have very easy upgrade to 5.0? OR should we hold off until font-awesome 5 comes out?

Answer

delaf picture delaf · Dec 27, 2017

It's not backwards compatible.

I just publish a script to do the migration from 4 to 5 in:

https://github.com/estebandelaf/scripts/blob/master/fontawesome4to5.sh

PS: I know the post is from a year ago, but is the second result in google for "fontawesome migration script 4 to 5".

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